**BREAKING PING**
Zullo’s pdf expert, Garrett Papit (who collaborated with Mara Zebest), is now collaborating with Obot blogger “NBC” to the extent of helping him to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious halos on the WH LFBC pdf!
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/dr-conspiracy-garrett-papit/
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“Some interesting new developments. Dr C discovered a document resembling the WH LFBC PDF but without halos. I have been trying to create such a document myself, so this is a very welcome contribution.
“It was emailed to Dr C by Garrett Papit who also declined to comment on the Xerox ‘forger’ issue:
‘Unfortunately I’m not at liberty to discuss it at this point. But sit tight. It will be covered in due time. … Once I am allowed to discuss it I will be more than happy to address your points.’
“It is good to hear that others may be looking at this issue as well so that we may be able to resolve the claims in the next few weeks.
“He has access to a Xerox WorkCentre 7655
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDaYef36qXo
“He wrote a supplemental report for the Cold Case Posse”
http://www.mcso.org/MultiMedia/PressRelease/Media%20Supplemental%20Report.pdf
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I have only just now read the Garrett Papit research paper written for Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse
“Comprehensive Analysis, Obama LFBC PDF file”
http://www.mcso.org/MultiMedia/PressRelease/Media%20Supplemental%20Report.pdf
The one main point that NBC appears to have claimed to debunk in Papit’s paper is that MRC (and Papit DOES discuss MRC compression in great detail)...MRC “should” only create ONE 1-bit (black) text layer and that nearly all the text and lines as well as the date stamps and signature stamps “should” be contained in that one layer.
NBC has not yet refuted Papit’s claim that there should be NO halos.
Papit explains:
“The presence of a white halo around the text, and white space beneath the text, on the White House file is inconsistent with optimization or a simple scan. Under normal circumstances, a scanned document will not result in an image that has a white halo around the lettering. Similarly, optimization will not arbitrarily add a white halo or insert white space beneath the text layer. In order to generate such a halo, a user would have to take deliberate action, such as applying an unsharp mask, within a graphics editing program such as Photoshop. Manual editing with such an application would dramatically erode the provenance of this document.”
In this paper, Papit says he created a “control document” described below and this is what it appears he sent to NBC because it was explicitly created to not have the halos that are in the WH pdf but would NOT have been on the original IF THERE WAS ONE. The WH pdf copy cannot be used to simulate an original because it already HAS Halos, thus the need to create a control simulated original without halos:
Papit: “In order to adequately test and analyze the effects of optimization, a control document was created that would be as close as possible to a birth certificate issued by the Hawaii Department of Health. The form data would have been printed onto green safety paper, and then the date stamp and registrar stamp would be manually added via a traditional ink stamp to certify the document.”
Did Garrett regularly use the 7655? If so, maybe he could show us the copies he made on the 7655 in April of 2011 that had the same phenomena. When he was collaborating with the CCP did he try out the 7655 to see if it would give these effects? Funny that neither he nor anybody else - when examining documents down to the pixel level - never noticed any number substitutions or other strange phenomena now being brought up.
Maybe we all need to find out whether the Kinko’s or other copy places where we may have had copies made before 2013 used a 7655, and we should look at those copies and see if there are number substitutions in those older copies, or if the number substitutions only started appearing recently.
Halo research update ping...
NBC has responded to my comment #535 by posting a comment on his blog:
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/seizethecarp-papit/
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Seizethecarp – Garrett Papit
Posted on August 15, 2013 by NBC
SeizetheCarp Zullo’s pdf expert, Garrett Papit (who collaborated with Mara Zebest), is now collaborating with Obot blogger “NBC” to the extent of helping him to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious halos on the WH LFBC pdf!
Let me assure you that there is no collaboration between me and Papit. All I did was look at a document Papit had sent to Dr Conspiracy which appeared to be the WH LFBC without halos. The document is quite useless since the background lacks the contrast of the original.
Of course, I do encourage his contributions once he gets the green light to share with us his findings.
I found a Youtube video made by ‘Papit’ where someone can be observed trying to get a Xerox WorkCentre 7655 to scan via email, but failing, probably due to a bad networking setup. This was almost a month ago. It appears that they are still taking their time sharing their findings. I wonder what is taking them so long.
Looking forward to hearing more. At the moment Papit appears to be under a ‘gag’ order of some kind… I kid you not…
Papit: Unfortunately I’m not at liberty to discuss it at this point. But sit tight. It will be covered in due time. … Once I am allowed to discuss it I will be more than happy to address your points.
In his report he mentioned that he had done over 1200 tests, but the real question is: What was tested? Software, hardware? And is this the first time they are looking at the Xerox WorkCentre...
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If you were to drag this selected text to another computer file, what would happen? The purple text 'YES' would have a black halo around it. Why? Because when the word 'YES' was selected, the selection was expanded by a couple of pixels, resulting in a black halo around the text. This is how the white halos around the bc lines and text occurred, when the fake green security paper background was added behind it.